1. Include the reason in the tweet. For example: "My BFF's in real life: @annie @maryjane @sally" or "four business experts @soandso @etc". Framing your Follow Fridays with some context gives people much more of a compelling reason to check out your recommendations.
2. Try to keep your recommendations to a few people each week. It can get confusing very quickly when people post long lists seemingly without rhyme or reason. If your Follow Friday is taking up 3 or 4 tweets, you are including too many people and lessening the chances that others will check out their profiles to see what they're about.
3. Type the full hashtag: #followfriday or #ff. Adding spaces in the hashtag won't index it properly.
Have you ever followed people on Twitter because of someone else's Follow Friday recommendation?
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I think I have done it a couple times. It's helpful to have recommendations from people you already enjoy enough to follow.
Steven
Great post! You made me want to retract my "random list of people" followfriday haha! I vow to make it better NEXt week :) And yes, I've started following based on #ff but agree it has to be from a source you already like / trust.
Great advice! I get annoyed when I see the FF that have a million people on there. It makes it seem less genuine.
Yes! I have followed new people based on other recommendations!
I recently started doing follow friday, and I categorize my #ff lists now. Today I posted my fave "sweet" ladies, which are bakeries, baking supplies, dessert specialists! :)
fantastic I did not know what it meant, brilliant now just have to find the hash sign on my mac.
thanks.
Actually I just did for the first time today.
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